BALANGA City – Police are on the hunt for a teenaged housemaid suspected of stabbing to death on Tuesday before noon her woman employer whom she has reportedly worked for for merely a week.
Subject of the chase is Elsa Napigkit, 18, native of Dipolog City but residing in Marilao, Bulacan, the main suspect in the killing of businesswoman Josie Garcia, 46, of TaglesVille Subidivision in this city.
SPO1 Teodolfo Endonilla, Balanga City police investigator, said the businesswoman suffered multiple stab wounds on the neck, face, chest and other parts of the body from a kitchen knife that scene of the crime operatives recovered.
A son of the victim who just went home from school at about 11:30 a.m. found his mother lifeless and sprawled in blood inside a room near the comfort room at the second floor of their residence.
Endonilla said that they were also looking into recovered newly- washed dress with blood stains the suspect might have used and changed with another clothes. Janice Vitangcol, the victim’s younger sister, said the maid was only a week under the employ of her sister. “May nagrekomenda lang sa kapatid ko,” she said.
Nory Salavaria, manicurist in one of two beauty salons operated by the victim, confirmed that the kasambahay was employed for only a week. “Maliit na babaing payat, maitim,” she answered when asked what the maid looked like.
The manicurist described their woman employer as “mabait, pwedeng hingan ng tulong agadagad.” “Nasabi sa amin ni ma’am kahapon (Monday) na nagsumbong ang anak niya na ginalaw ang bag ng girlfriend kaya napangaralan ang maid. Sinabihan pa raw niya na may CCTV sa bahay at pabubuksan sa pulis,” Salavaria said.
